F5 NGINX Plus: Compare NGINX Models
Find Out Which NGINX Model Is Right for You – NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus
Wondering about the value you gain from upgrading from NGINX Open Source to NGINX Plus?
Check out this side-by-side comparison of popular features and use cases.
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| Load balancer | |||
| HTTP and TCP/UDP support |  |
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| Layer 7 request routing | |
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| Session persistence | |
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| Active health checks | |
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| DNS service‑discovery integration | |
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| Content cache | |||
| Static and dynamic content caching | |
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| Cache‑purging API | |
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| MQTT protocol support for IOT devices | |
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| Web server and reverse proxy | |||
| Origin server for static content | |
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| Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGI, memcached, SCGI, uwsgi | |
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| HTTP/2 gateway | |
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| gRPC proxy | |
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| HTTP/2 server push | |
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| HTTP/3 over QUIC | |
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| Security controls | |||
| HTTP Basic Authentication | |
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| HTTP authentication subrequests | |
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| IP address‑based access control lists | |
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| Rate limiting | |
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| Dual‑stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload | |
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| TLS 1.3 support | |
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| JWT authentication | |
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| OpenID Connect single sign‑on (SSO) | |
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| Internal redirect | |
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| NGINX as a SAML Service Provider | |
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| NGINX App Protect (additional cost) | |
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| Monitoring | |||
| Export to external monitoring tools | |
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| Built-in dashboard | |
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| Extended status with 100+ additional metrics | |
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| Native Open Telemetry Tracing | |
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| High availability (HA) | |||
| Active‑active | |
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| Active‑passive | |
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| Configuration synchronization across cluster | |
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| State sharing: sticky‑learn session persistence, rate limiting, key‑value stores | |
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| Programmability | |||
| NGINX JavaScript module | |
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| NGINX Plus API for dynamic reconfiguration | |
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| Key‑value store | |
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| Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads | |
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| Streaming media | |||
| Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH | |
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| VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4 | |
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| Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS, HDS | |
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| MP4 bandwidth controls | |
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| Third-party ecosystem | |||
| Ingress controller | |
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| OpenShift Router | |
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| Dynamic modules repository | |
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| Deployable as a service | |||
| Commercial support | |
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